MacBook Air How do you configure a printer?

We have used iPrint on our old fully patched (including iprntnw65sp8f.zip) server for years. Win2k/XP/7 clients, both secured and unsecured printing with only 2 printers. I have used IE to upload printer drivers for Windows clients, but cannot for the life of me work out how you go about setting up a printer for a MacBook Air (with latest OS X version), I've never even used a Mac before yesterday.
I have managed to get the iPrint client installed (v5.76) but there are no drivers installed on the server so I can't install any printers.
I can't log in to iManager from the MAC as the browser (chrome) isn't supported so I can't upload the drivers (I have managed to get the drivers installed manually on the Mac from the internet).
I have turned off Sandboxing in CUPS after reading in another thread about it causing issues in the latest OSX version.
I've tried manually adding a printer (address: our IP address, protocol: Internet Printing Protocol - IPP, Queue: /ipp/Ricoh) which seems to talk to the server for something as it fills in the Location field but printing just hangs.
I only have one Mac, all I need to do is install iPrint (think this is done) point it to an existing printer and link it to an already installed local driver, can anyone guide me through it? Mac specifics in the docs all I could find was installing the iprint client, nothing about setting up printers. I've even tried uploading a ppd to the server using iprntcmd -u but that fails as well.
Any help would be gratefully received.
M

How much HD space should I partition for Windows vs.
Mac? I want to only run Office apps in Windows and
everything else (e-mail, internet, file management)
from the Mac.
I would say 10GB minimum.
Should I partition the Windows HD as FAT32 or NTFS?
Either Windows XP can be installed on wither a FAT32 or an NTFS partition.
However FAT32 has the advantage that the Mac will be able to read/write to the partition.
With NTFS the Mac will only be able to read the partition.
Note that when booted into Windows it won't be able to read or write the Mac partition unless it has installed MacDrive or similar.
Can I open an Office app from an e-mail attachment
from the Mac side without having Office Mac (i.e. do
I need two versions of Office -- Office Mac and
Windows Office)?
You would need to boot into Windows to open certain Office files using Office for Windows or use the methods already mentioned.
Two versions of Office might be an option.
Another thing you may want to consider rather than use Boot Camp is to use Parallels
http://www.parallels.com/en/products/desktop/
iFelix

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